All,
I have a customer who initially specified Juniper M7i and M10i routers in dual redundant configurations across an 8,000 mile WAN point-to-point link. The recommendation was apparently based on latency and jitter performance. Is there any practical difference between these and,say, a CISCO 3945? What does latency typically look like for CISCO equivalents? I suspect the core routers and switches probably contribute far more than the edge interfaces which see less traffic. Reliability and rapid failover are also issues.
I also see indications that MPLS is implemented differently by Juniper and CISCO, and that interoperability can be a problem. Is this correct? If the external infrastructure is largely CISCO, perhaps for reasons of future expansion (i.e. point-to-multipoint, VPLS, etc.) Juniper should not be used in the mix.
Any help and advice would be appreciated.